EditorialDesign for the Overmantel of a Chimneypiece with Bust of Pompilius Numa. James Thornhill; English, 1675-1734. Date: 1695-1734. Dimensions: 147 ? 82 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and green wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory w...
EditorialWall Decoration with Story of Egeria & Numa Pompilius. James Thornhill; English, 1675-1734. Date: 1695-1734. Dimensions: 212 ? 193 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper. Origin: England.
EditorialChambered or great nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius. Illustration copied from Georg Knorr. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialNuma Pompilius Worshipping Jove on the Aventine, Ceiling Design for the Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on white laid paper, Jupiter, seated upo...
EditorialNuma Pompilius and Egeria, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk on white laid paper, Seated side by side, Egeria explains to Numa writing on tablet held on he...
EditorialCeiling Design for the Consecration of Numa, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on white laid paper, An augur lays his left hand on veiled head of ...
EditorialCeiling Design for Numa Pompilius Welcomed to Rome after his Election, Sala di Numa Pompilio, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on white laid paper, Numa accompanied by t...
EditorialRetrieval of Books from the Tomb of Numa, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on white laid paper, Civilian and soldier take books from two sarcopha...
EditorialCross-section through chambered nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius (Nautilus crassus) 1, small nautilus, Nautilus pompilius suluensis 2, greater argonaut with narrow keel, Argonauta argo (Nautilus papyraceus) 3, and greater argonaut with broad keel 4. ...
EditorialBladder moon snail, Neverita didyma 1, crusty nautilus, Nonion umbilicatulum 2, and chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius 3,4. Natice, Nautile. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Me...
EditorialChambered or great nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius (Nautilus crassus) 1 and polished shell below 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G.W. Knorr after an illustration by Barbara Regina Dietzsch from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Select...
EditorialNautilus pompilius, Print, The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral...
EditorialNautilus pompilius, Print, The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral...
EditorialNautilus pompilius, Print, The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral...
EditorialNautilus pompilius, Print, The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral...
EditorialNautilus pompilius, Print, The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral...
EditorialHermit Saint in Cave, n.d., Unknown Artist, Italian, 17th century, Italy, Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper, 135 ? 125 mm, Numa Pompilius Giving the Laws to the Romans, n.d., Possibly Gi...
EditorialWall Decoration with Story of Egeria & Numa Pompilius. James Thornhill; English, 1675-1734. Date: 1695-1734. Dimensions: 212 ? 193 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper. Origin: England.
EditorialDesign for the Overmantel of a Chimneypiece with Bust of Pompilius Numa. James Thornhill; English, 1675-1734. Date: 1695-1734. Dimensions: 147 ? 82 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and green wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory w...
EditorialEmperor nautilus cephalopod out of its shell, Nautilus pompilius. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.
EditorialEmperor nautilus shell and section through shell showing chambers, Nautilus pompilius (Great nautilus, Nautilus pompilius) Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nod...
EditorialEmperor nautilus cephalopod in its shell, Nautilus pompilius. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.
EditorialChambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius 1, and pearl oysters and mussels 2,3,4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialChambered or great nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius. Illustration copied from Georg Knorr. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.